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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest Use this hour in just four minutes. It could
be a long day in court for Sean Diddy Combs
as his sentencing hearing is underway in New York City.
Supporters of Combs are both outside and inside the court.
His fans and families streamed in for a front row seat.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I would like to see him get out. He spent
He spent a lot of time in jail so far.
Me personally, I think it's going to come home today.
I think there's no reason to keep him in jail anymore.
He's fourteen months, has been a long time.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
His mother was one of the first family members to arrive,
while his children and the mother of his children are
all there for support. Combs has been behind bars since
he was first taken into custody last September in a
Midtown hotel. Today is day three the partial government shutdown.
Democrats are showing no signs of budgeting over their demands
for health care funding. It comes as President Trump has

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promised federal layoffs during the ongoing government shutdown. The Justice
Department has outlined its case to bring National Guard troops
to Portland. They claim the troops are necessary to protect
workers in federal facilities, including the ice building. Oregon's Attorney
general filed the motion that claimed the troops would only
exacerbate the protests. It takes the guard away if they

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might be needed for a state emergency, and doesn't meet
the legal bar for federalization of the National Guard. A
hearing on the motion is scheduled today. iHeartMedia is celebrating

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the holiday season across the country with its annual iHeart
Radio jingle Ball Tour, presented by Capitol I. This year's
event will feature artists like Renee Rapp, Zarah Larson, Raven Lenney,
Ed Sheeran, and Moore. The thirtieth jingle Ball Tour will
make a stop in Dallas, LA, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, and
more between December second and the twentieth. The concerts will

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also air exclusively on ABC in December and the next
day on Hulu. Tickets for the twenty twenty five iHeartRadio
jingle Ball go on sale today. I'm Chris Krazio. Meadow
will soon use your conversations with its AI chatbot to
hit you with personalized ads. Charlotte North reports.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Meta is taking another step towards its CEO's vision of
an AI augmented future. From December sixteenth, Meta ai will
mind chatbook conversations to determine which ads and recommendations show
up in your feed. While users won't be able to
opt out, the company said that the content of some conversations,
for example, involving religious or political views, will be excluded.
The policy won't apply to users in the UK, South Korea,

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in the EU, at least initially. Experts have raised concerns
about Meta ai safeguarding for minors and privacy violations. Charlotte, North, Washington.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Purdue University researchers will travel to the South Pacific in
search of wreckage from Amelia Earhart's lost plane next month.
The research team will inspect an underwater object that's been
visible in photos from a lagoon that's located on a
small island Carrie body since the nineteen thirties, in an
effort to identify it. Earhart was attempting to become the
first female pilot to circle the world when she and

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navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in nineteen
thirty seven. The object is about four hundred miles southeast
of Howland Island, which was Earhart and Noonan's planned destination.
Saturday Night Live We'll kick off its fifty first season
this weekend with Bad Bunny as host. Puerto Rican Superstar
will be joined by a musical guest, Doja Cat, for
the season premiere of the NBC sketch comedy series. Bad

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Bunny was recently named as the halftime performer for the
twenty twenty six Super Bowl. The following week, Saturday Night
Live will be hosted by SNL alum Amy Poehler, followed
by popstar Sabrina Carpenter on October eighteenth and here. In
early October, McDonald's has announced that it's bringing back its
Halloween themed boo buckets. The fast food giant says the

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specialized happy meals will be available on October twenty first.
The buckets will feature faces of a ghost, a pumpkin,
and a goblin, with two editions, this time a cat
and a zombie of Chris Kraju